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Carlo van Putten

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About Me

I am alive, most of the time at least ;-) I'm a singer, songwriter and I'm a language teacher on a highschool in Bussum near Amsterdam... I sing in 3 bands since 1980 . My bands /projects are:
The Convent
www.myspace.com/theconvent
White Rose Transmission
www.myspace.com/whiterosetransmission
Dead Guitars
www.myspace.com/deadguitars
For further information about my music klick on the links in my friends....
All MY MUSIC IS AVAILABLE VIA:
With my Band DEAD GUITARS we have completed our debut 'AIRPLANES' alongside Guido Lucas at the 'Blue Box'. The album has been released 1st of June 2007. You can have a listen to the album here...
Tracklisting "Airplanes":
1. Name Of The Sea
2. Feels Alright
3. Crumble Zone
4. Airplanes
5. Sweet Revenge
6. Crash
7. Shine
8. This Was A Year
9. Should I
10. The Great Escape
+ Name Of The Sea (Video)
Release: 01/06/07
You can get the album at Amazon or Red Sun

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

Myself again ;-)

DEAD GUITARS LIVE IN THE UNDERGROUND COLOGNE 10.06.2007 Pictures BY SONJA NIEMEIER
This is a video of The Dead Guitars

The Sound - Winning

White Rose Transmission 24.10.2006 Güstrow Germany
(Less than Human - Chameleons cover)

WHITE ROSE TRANSMISSION - VALLEY OF BLUE FLOWERS - AMSTERDAM 03.03.2007 WINSTON KINGDOM

This recoring is from the Paradiso in Amsterdam in november 2006 "a tribute to Adrian Borland". I did Hands of love, Ordinary Angel and Winning. Great spirits will never die!

Music:

to many bands to mention... ready ??

I love The Doors, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Bowie, The Chameleons, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Sound, The Church, Marty Willson Piper, Steve Kilbey, The Kitchen of Distinction, The House of Love, Siouzie & the Banshees, Freur, Underworld, Halfstring, XTC, Joy Division, Bonny Prince Billy, Sulfjan Stevens, Kristofer Astrom, Thomas Dybdahl, Comsat Angels, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, The Stranglers, The Clash, The Fall, four against, Mogwai, The Church, Sigur Ro's, Half String, A.C Acoustics, Modern English, Suede, The smashing pumpkins, The Stills, Madrugada, Iggy Pop, The Cult, Nirvana, Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Bauhaus, I am Kloot, Smashing Pumpkins, Doves, Leonard Cohen, The Stranglers, The Buzzcocks, The Jam, The Psychedelic Furs, Placebo, Damien Rice, Richard Ashcroft, Radiohead, The Mars Volta, Interpol, Julian Cope

....and many many more.. to mention really....

Movies:

lost in translation, Sophie Scholl, Gegen die Wand, Betty Blue, Clockwork orange, Basquiat, the meaning of life, American beauty, 21 gramm, Michael Collins, 911 Fahrenheit, Bushes Brain (none) Loose Change, The green Mile, Hable con Ella, Black cat white cat, Kill Bill, from dusk till dawn, Bowling for Colombine, The Field, Interview with a vampire, the doors, wild at heart and many more honestly..

Television:

SUCKS.....slowly ...it will kill your imagination ;-)

Books:

Poems by arthur Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Letters to my father by Kafka, The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera, the picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, a biography of Wilhelm Reich, Joost Zwagerman, Witold Gombrowicz, Harry Mulish, Cees Nooteboom, Hermann Hesse, Elizabeth Barret-Browning, Sylvia Plath, James Joyce, Dylan Thomas, Aldous Huxley, Charles Dickens, Max Frisch, a biography of Kurt Weill,Günther Grass, Boelie van Leeuwen, Marsman, Antoine de Saint-Exupry.....and also many more

Heroes:

Sophie & Hans Scholl, John Lennon, Ghandi, Martin Luther King & all the others of The White Rose, Ghandi and those who fought without weapons against war

My Blog

White Rose Transmission Live Line up 06-2007

Hello there, our line up for the few support gigs of will be: WHITE ROSE TRANSMISSION LINE UP TOUR 6/2007: Carlo van Putten (the convent/dead guitars) - vocals/guitarRob Keijzer - GuitarsFrank Weyzig...
Posted by Carlo van Putten on Mon, 21 May 2007 05:55:00 PST

I'm on tour in Germany. I hope to see some of you..

I'm on on tour in Germany with 2 bands. I hope to see some of you out there. First I do an acoustic set with White Rose Transmission www.myspace.com/whiterosetransmission (only the first 3 concer...
Posted by Carlo van Putten on Mon, 21 May 2007 01:10:00 PST

My first production steps ;-)

Every year I organize a talent scout evening at the school where I work as a par-time teacher. Children have the chance to show their talent on stage in front of an enthousiastic audience.&n...
Posted by Carlo van Putten on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:44:00 PST

New Video on this site White rose Transmission in Amsterdam

Hiya again,thanks for all your support, your lovely words, your time, your ears and eyes and at least...your believe.I have put a new video clip on this site that we have recorded at the Winston Kingd...
Posted by Carlo van Putten on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:09:00 PST

The Church on Tour in Europe !!!!! April dates

Hello There,  friends of us are on tour in April this year. I will go to all the Dutch shows, hope to meet some of you out there. Don't miss them, they are one of my favorite bands of all time!!!...
Posted by Carlo van Putten on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:53:00 PST

I'm just a tired man...thanks!

Dear friends and freaks out there ;-) after gigging 3 days in my home country the flatlands of europe or the never netherlands... I'm back home, tired, exhausted, full-filled, dissapointed, dissilusi...
Posted by Carlo van Putten on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:58:00 PST

White Rose Transmission video clip Chameleons cover

Hiya there, I have just put a video clip from our german tour last year on my site. It's a cover version on Piano and vocals of The Chameleons (Less than Human) Hope you like it. This is what you can ...
Posted by Carlo van Putten on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:48:00 PST

WHITE ROSE TRANSMISSION - 3 LIVE SHOWS IN HOLLAND !!!

Hello, we play 3 acoustic shows with White Rose Transmission in the Netherlands, I hope to see you out there! 01.03.2007  De Flitz - Rosenstraat 15 Utrecht  support: Erny Green&nbs...
Posted by Carlo van Putten on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:42:00 PST

In Memoriam HD

..> This sad news arrived today. HD was the booker of a club we used to play often near Bremen with The Convent and Dead Guitars. HD was one of the club owners who created always a nice and warm at...
Posted by Carlo van Putten on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 02:49:00 PST

WRT New Song - Signpost on the Door - Demo version

Dear friends,we have just recorded a demo of a new song "signpost on the door" Wrote it at Florian's studio near Hannover. We just wanted to put it on our site to get some feedback. I wrote the lyrics...
Posted by Carlo van Putten on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:09:00 PST